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It's time for coffee and company,
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine

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day. Now here's Nick Coffee.
Every now and then I will open up

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Twitter and go to the messages and
then hit the message requests, and it's

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usually from people who don't follow you, but more often than not, it's

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like bots. And I mean,
clearly it's like a potential scam and there

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are probably people that like that.
Do I think it's real? But I'm

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just curious, like what are they
gonna try to? Like, I'll read

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this. One says, Hi,
my sisters saw your profile while browsing X

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on my phone and she is interested
in you. And then it's got like

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this weird link gwy why one five
eight dot fund says open the link to

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complete the registration and she will take
the invitation to call you remember to say

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hello to her. She's very shy, Like, clearly that's not real.

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But like if I did all that
and I called, like, are they

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stealing my identity? Is this going
to be a hot girl that like wants

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money and because she's hot, they
think I'm gonna I'm gonna give it to

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her. Like there's a lot of
bot stuff on the Internet, a lot

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of porn bots, especially on X
but you know, like what ends up?

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Like what ends up? Like what
do they get out of it?

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You know what I mean? Like
I would love to know who the victims

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are of this and what they lose, not only you know, I don't.

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I don't need that for me to
not have to, you know,

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get caught up in it. But
here's another one. Let's see, Hi,

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I find your temperature is very unique? Can I get to know you

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your temperature? Does that even mean? Oh god? This says have you

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ever met a minor? Here?
This says, let's see. There's a

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lot of like the weird sister stuff
like Hey, my sister saw your page.

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She's really interested. Have you ever
replied to one of them? Never?

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No, I usually never even open
them because I feel like even open

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them opening them sometimes could like get
my account hacked or something. But I

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don't think that's the case. I
think you'd have to actually like interact with

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them and click on them. But
a lot of them that came in like

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last month. If I now go
to those messages, there's there's nothing there,

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so like you know, like the
the profiles like gone, so they

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probably I guess they're trying to shut
down the bots, but you know,

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it gets hard. That is the
most annoying thing on the platform. That

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is that is X meaning that like, no matter if if you're going to

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go and try to just see the
engagement from any tweet, it's got a

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lot of reaction. You're gonna have
to filter through, like every now and

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then you'll see somebody you know,
giving a good response, given a funny

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response, and then oh, there
you go. There's some some tweet that

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has a link to some webcam and
this girl's ready for you to click on

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it. And I don't know,
I just feel like, despite how horny

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everybody is on the internet, the
amount of people who like click on that

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thinking it's real, it's got to
be low, right, Am I giving

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people too much of the benefit of
that out there? I feel like it's

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it's fairly low. And I feel
like most of the people they just they're

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just so horned up that they can't
see through it. Yeah, I mean,

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I don't feel like I'm giving them
the benefit that. I just think

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it's like a no brainer that people
would know now that that's not real.

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But then again, here I am, you know, I guess underestimating something

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that should never be underestimated, because
I feel like if idiots in America and

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the horny people on the internet,
right if it truly wasn't working, I

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feel like they would stop doing it. Yeah, I don't know, but

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all it takes is maybe one sucker, you know what I mean, Like

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if you put enough of it out
there and somebody clicks on it and they

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think it's real and they give you
their information or give you money, Like

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you know, all it takes is
one All right, It's coffee and company.

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We are feel by Thorton's here on
Sports Talk seven to ninety. Appreciate

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you hanging out with us on a
Friday afternoon. The vibes are strong.

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We've got Gorgy Jang back in Louisville, which it looks like Russ has kind

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of confirmed something that a lot of
folks were assuming, and that is that

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Gorgey is now working in the front
office with the San Antonio Spurs. So

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he finished his career with the Spurs
and apparently established a really good relationship with

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the organization and Greg Popovich. And
he was seen on Draft night if you

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remember they went to they showed the
war room where are all the executives they

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work in the front office. They
gather around and they get real hyped up

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and clap it up and high five
and chess bump when they make a draft

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pick. You know, it's a
cliche, but it's you know, it's

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all the hard work they've put in
in the off season to try to find

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out who's the future of their franchise. They just made the pick. Now

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we celebrate. Well, Gorgey was
in there with them, and he's you

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know, he's it's not hard.
He's hard to miss, he says,

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seven foot basketball player who you know
doesn't usually I mean, I don't know

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what everybody who works in the g
in the front offices of the NBA he

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looks like. But you know,
he's he stands out because he's seven feet

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tall essentially, so Russ says.
He shared the tweet that the Tbtville team

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tweeted out that just shows the picture
of those two talking, Russ and Gorgey,

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and it says Gorgey pulled up to
practice. All the louelmen's basketball legends

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are hyped about the Ville and of
course it's another encouragement. They're encouraging you

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once again. To go get tickets. But Russ then said, just about

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ten minutes ago, elite of the
elite came into school with my bro.

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So happy for him. He looks
amazing in the front office. The Spurs

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have a great one, so I
don't know what his actual position is,

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but we now have front office Gorgy
and I kind of love it. I

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feel like our boys all grown up. And if you remember John, I

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told my Dennisty was my favorite player. That's right, Goorgy Jang. So

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again another reminder, get your tickets. Let's break the record tomorrow at Freedham

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Hall. Seven two hundred is the
record. I want to shatter it tomorrow.

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I don't know how realistic that is, but why not give it a

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shot. If you look at the
tickets that are available now, I feel

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like they're already close. I always
say that yesterday, but there's even more

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tickets that have been sold since then, so they got to be getting close,

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at least I hope they are.
There are people who are buying tickets

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and reselling them, but I don't
know. Man, I feel like that's

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a that's a risk because when you
do that, you're always taking a risk

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because you may not have like the
demand may not be there. I feel

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like if you're somebody out there that's
going to buy a bunch of tickets to

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then resell on the you know,
secondary market for more money, would you

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Wouldn't it be a no brainer that
you would only do that for something that

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you believe has the chance to sell
out or will sell out, because if

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not, they're just going to go
get tickets elsewhere for the for the going

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rate online. It like you know
that everybody else can go get So I'm

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hopeful that the tickets that I see
that aren't available are are not available because

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they're they've been they've been purchased.
But then again, somebody made a really

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good point that you know, my
dumb mass probably should have known, is

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that if you go to Ticketmaster and
you look at what's available and it shows

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that they're not available, it could
be because tick pick has a bunch of

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them, or you know what are
the other stub Hub, vivid seats,

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those kind of things, which they
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So maybe that is the case.
But none of those sites that I've seen

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has any for sale that are in
that lower area. So that alone is

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forty five hundred. So and again
when you go to any of the sites,

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because I looked at it earlier,
today, they're all selling the same

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kind of seats, which are the
remaining in the upper levels of the three

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hundred sections. And it's not close. It's like, you know, midway

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up and beyond. So I feel
like a lot of tickets are gone,

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and I hope they can break the
record. So it looks like a game's

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already started. Did Indiana place tonight? And I'll be on the Big ten

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network? Who do they play?
You know? They play Valparaiso's alumni,

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the crew. Why do they even
have a team? I mean, no

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offense, no offense to to those
guys, but you know, I mean

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they have anybody notable like that?
You mean not that I've noticed on the

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roster that I would be aware of, for someone that I would know obviously,

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So Produe's team men have Mackie.
They're playing right now against Fort Wayne's

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alumni. Okay, so is that
is that the game? So Archie Miller

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who played for not Archie Miller,
Archie Goodwin, who played for Kentucky.

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I just saw somebody share a a
clip of him, so I thought maybe

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he was playing for the Purdue team, but maybe he's playing for uh the

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Was that the first game today or
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some games. Yeah, I'm sorry. Archie Goodwin is with Eberln Drive,

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gotcha, Okay? And they played
earlier today at one o'clock, So I

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guess that game that game has just
ended, unless this is a live score,

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was against Team Arkansas. Yeah,
so look, it's that game started

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at one o'clock on a Friday.
But the only reason I'm bring it up

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is because I saw that highlight clip
of Archie Goodwin and it's it's empty,

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like it's not totally empty, but
there's not a lot of people there.

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And and I think hinkle Field House
has to me it's a place that like,

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if it's not full, it's it
was a weird echo in the video.

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So they'll be fans there tonight because
you know, Indiana's playing, and

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they'll be they'll be yes tonight,
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heck, the game going on right
now is the Purdue guys. I bet

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they've got a you know, I
bet they've got a decent crowd compared to

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the game that started at one o'clock. But you know, in these places,

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if you if you don't have a
good crowd, it is kind of

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a bad you know, I want
to say, a bad look because look,

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if you right now, I'm looking
at a team called Evelyn Drob that's

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playing in Indianapolis, and from what
I can tell, there's nobody there that

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has any Indianapolis, Indiana connections on
their roster. So you know, you

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shouldn't expect this group, despite how
good they may be, to bring out

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a bunch of dudes. But you
know, again, they're also the one

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o'clock game on a foot y.
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it seem, I don't know,
like this is such high level basketball for

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the most part that I would hate
for somebody to like tune in and see

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a light crowd and think, all
this is just you know, what is

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what is this? Why are they? Why is this on TV? Which

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you may come to that question anyway, but it's still I mean, if

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this if this event took place you
know, elsewhere or a different time of

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the year, I should say,
then it wouldn't get this much attention.

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By the way, Everylyn Drives got
a good squad here Archie Goodwin AJ Slaughter,

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Kentucky native who had a phenomenal career
at Western Kentucky, been playing professionally

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for a long time. Devin Kennedy
who went to Princeton but did spend some

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time in the NBA. Johnny O'Bryant
who played at L s U and had

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had a good run in the NBA
if I remember correctly. So, yeah,

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that I guess Indiana'd have to get
past this group if they if they

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end up moving on, so the
one seed, right, Yeah, if

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Indiana wins, they'll play the winner
of Purdue and Fort Wayne tomorrow or not

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tomorrow. But on Sunday, did
they give the Butler team the second seed

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just because they're hosting? Because I
gotta be honest with you, I don't

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find their roster to be very good. But I mean potentially that would make

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sense. Yeah, I mean Rodney
Clark. I forgot about that guy,

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former sharpshooter from Arkansas. Wow,
I forgot all about him. He can

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fill it up. But yeah,
Shelvin Max playing and I know Shelvin and

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he was a great player for Butler, probably one of the more underrated kids

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out of Kentucky that ended up having
a college career a great college crash.

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Should they played in a national champion
I think he might have played in two

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national championship games for Butler. I
think he was there during that time when

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they were on a run. So
yeah, I mean I'm looking at this.

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I mean that roster doesn't look all
that impressive for the two seeds.

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So anyways, get your tickets.
Let's pack Freedham Haul tomorrow as best we

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can and break that record. Coming
up at about four thirty, we'll talk

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to our man, mister Larry Binns, I should say doctor Larry Bins from

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pro Reap Physical Therapy. You want
to get his thoughts on a lot of

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things, including Kevin Durant has been
cleared to practice with Team USA now I

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think he practiced today coming off of
a shin injury. I don't think they're

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going to need him to win the
Gold but obviously he'd be one of the

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best players to feature for the United
States if he's available. And something else

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I wanted to get Larry's thoughts on
is the process of physical therapists and trainers

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given the opportunity to do that job
for the United States and the Olympics.

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Or other countries, you know.
I mean that's a very important thing when

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it comes to sports, the sports
medicine again, trainers and physical therapists,

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And I feel like if that's your
industry, it would be like a dream

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come true to not only work in
sports, but to be able to rep

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I mean, you're representing the United
States as well in a different way of

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course. But yeah, we'll get
his thoughts on that and and a lot

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more. He actually, you know, not Larry himself, but Pro rehab

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Is is the official healthcare provider for
this TVT team, So maybe we can

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pick his brain on how to keep
these guys healthy, because you know,

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some of these guys have I mean, they're not like Peyton Siva. I'm

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sure he stays in great shape.
He looks the same as he did whenever

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he played here. They're twelve years
ago and won a national championship. But

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you know he's not he didn't play
professionally in a couple of years. So

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you know, I don't know if
you can really replicate what you're about to

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do here in this tournament when you're
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as a pro right real quick.
This is something I found to be interesting

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and I hope you guys will as
well. High school mascots. So this

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is another great breakdown from one of
these aggregating social media accounts. College Basketball

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Report CBK Report. They looked into
how many United States high schools share the

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same team name as each Power five
university. So of all the schools in

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the Power five, and that's the
four conferences of course that you know of

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in both sports, and the Big
East, because they are certainly a power

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in basketball, there are it looks
like about ten mascots that no high school

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has, which to be honest with
these, there's a couple of them that

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surprised me a little bit. I'm
not surprised that there's not any Sooners,

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right, John, You wouldn't expect
there to be any Sooners, correct,

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I wouldn't expect there to be any
Hoosiers either. That is. Let's see

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here. I think that's true.
I think I've seen this list. Yes,

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yeah, they were hidden in the
middle there. Yeah, there's no

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Hoosiers, there's no corn Huskers,
there's no Nitney Lions, and there's no

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fighting a Liona. So five of
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interesting. So they have unique mascots, no horn frogs. I wouldn't have

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guessed that there's none of them.
I would have guessed there's like maybe two.

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But there's not any Demon Deacons.
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not that uncommon of a mascot.
I guess maybe I'm thinking demon and dec.

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I don't know, Like I figured
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least a few schools have, but
not a single one in the United States

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is a demon Deacon. No Hokies, no orange and no tar heels.

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No tar heels, huh. Only
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and only one Cardinal. Keep in
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Cardinals like a lot of other schools. It has to be somebody close to

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where Stanford is. I would assume
what would you guess? And if you've

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already seen it, then you probably
already then you know, maybe this wouldn't

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be a fun game at trivia here. But there's one mascot that dominates the

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United States in high schools. You
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Eagles correct? And I went to
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and I knew there were more Eagles
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pretty common. I would have never
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one thousand, three hundred and thirty
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have a mascot that is the Eagle. It makes sense though we're in the

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United States. That is the national
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the second place is Tigers with nine
to thirty five, so that's a that's

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a dominant lead. And in third
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Man I went to Cliche schools.
I played for the North Bullet Eagles and

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I played for the Hebron Panthers.
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me, if you gave me the
top ten and said order them, I

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would have said that Tigers would be
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far off. They were number two. I probably would have guessed Bulldogs is

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number you know in there, and
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And then while Cats is at number
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number seven, Mustang's number eight.
Again, I was an overdeale Mustang.

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Free I was an overdome Mustang every
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surprise Mustang is a common masscot.
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I think it's an older one,
you know what I mean. I think

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a lot of older high schools would
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that's very common. I feel like
it's actually rare in college, but in

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Yeah, and that's it. That's
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And then the Trojans. I think
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I maybe is there a high school
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Trojans other than Southern. The Southern
Trojans just on Preston Highway, not far

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from you know, where I grew
up. But I can't think of any

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other. I mean, it's not
that I know every mascot in the state

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of Kentucky, but I feel like
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been more rare. And there's Spartans
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know, Cardinals. Cardinals is still
in the top fifteen. It looks like

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here, but I think I would
have guessed that they were higher, wouldn't

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you. Maybe it's my bias because
of Louisville, but I just feel like

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Cardinals is a very common mascot.
We've got Barren County Trojans. Oh,

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Kentucky North Harden Trojans. Oh.
I should have knew that. I should

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have known that one more than I
would have remembered without looking it up.

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Obviously, no chargers, by the
way, in the power for where I

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went to school, Bullet East,
none of them. There's no power for

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team with the Chargers. I guess
you're right. Yeah, And that's kind

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of rare, isn't it. It
feels like it. Yeah, now that

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I mean, it didn't seem rare
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the county that I grew up in, the Bullet Central Cooler's abilities Chargers in

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the North Bullet Eagles. But yeah, I guess you're right. I guess

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that's not that. And you had
the NFL team that's the Chargers, which

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makes you probably think it's more common. Yeah, Hurricanes, there's fifty six

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of them, which I don't know. Buffaloes. There can't be any buffaloes

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in Kentucky, right, I wouldn't
think so. Like I I'd be highly

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shocked if there's a mascot in Kentucky
that's a buffalo. That's gotta be like

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a Colorado thing, not just for
the university. There's thirty nine mountaineers.

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Where's that I bet West Virginia.
Yeah, and they're just any really any

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state that or any high school that
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area. Yeah. And then some
others that are really rare. You've got

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three hawk Eyes, You've got four
sun Devils, five boiler Makers. I

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would have just guessed, without looking
at this list, that Purdue would have

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been there. There would have been
no other boiler Makers. Yeah, that

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seems like it would have been its
own thing. Yeah. So yeah,

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I just I found that to be
rather interesting. And uh, i'd like

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to know what, Like I know, there's no way for us to probably

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find this, but the most common
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Oh, I bet there's a handful
that at at least I bet there's a

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bunch of one offs, you know
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oh man, there's like there's the
Campbell County camels. There cannot be another

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camel in Kentucky, right, I
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rare because there is there is a
college. There are the Campbell Fighting Camels.

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Yeah, which that again not Power
five level, but now I'm gonna

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look it up because I'm curious with
the rabbit hole. So bowling green is

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the purple. Yeah, that's something. And again there's the Campbell County,

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uh, Campbell County Camels. As
we mentioned Ashland Blazer, they're the tom

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Kats and the Kittens for the girls
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kind of like that too. I'm
sure some people will text some in because

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I would imagine like any other state, there's some states, there's some some

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mascots out there in you know,
rural areas, small towns to where they

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just decided to be something weird because
you know, why not the ballor Bombers.

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Oh yeah, memorial. Yeah,
Ballard Memorial out there in far western

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Kentucky. That's near Paduca, I
believe. So yeah. Interesting. All

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right, quick break, We'll come
back and we'll chat with our man.

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Doctor Larry Ben's a PRORI have physical
therapy, is going to join us on

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the other side. So stick around
right here. It's Coffee and Company.

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Feel about Thornton's on Sports Talk seven
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live here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Field by Thornton's appreciate you guys hanging

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out with us on a Friday afternoon. As the weekend, it's probably already

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here for a lot of you.
It'll be uh, it'll be here for

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us in about an hour and a
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We now bring in doctor Larry Ben's
of pro we have physical therapy. Always

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a pleasure to chat with doctor Ben's. And the nostalgia is already I can

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feel it. Larry. We've got
a lot of former Cardinals back in town

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the TBT tomorrow. Gorge Jang is
in Louisville, which has everybody excited.

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Not going to play, of course
for the team tomorrow. He's now in

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the front office with the Spurs in
some capacity, but yeah, it just

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feels great having all these guys back
in town. No, it absolutely is,

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and this tournament has taken a life
of its own. It's really exciting

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for our local fans and as you
said, for nostalgic purposes, but also

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you know, it's a good form
of entertainment and for the right price,

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and so be able to go back
to Freedom Hall and play. I think

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we start out locally playing the United
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And it's really interesting to look up
some of these teams. I think we're

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ranked. We're seated second in that
part of the bracket from what I could

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tell, and Team Diesels seems to
be the definitive favorite for that part.

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So it's funny you say that,
I've looked at each commercial break that I've

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just found myself looking at the humongous
bracket and clicking on the teams, and

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sure enough, and just about every
one of them, you see a player

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that you thought, oh, yeah, I remember that guy playing in college

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a few years ago. So a
lot of these players are still playing professionally

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overseas or maybe in the G League, and then some haven't played in a

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couple of years. Maybe this is
the annual event that they get in shape

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for. So it's a competitive thing. These guys want to win money,

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right, They'll they'll fit whatever role
that they're asked to fit, just because

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again competitively, it's you know,
I'm sure they want to get they want

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to stuff the statue, but obviously
it's about winning some money, which I'm

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sure these guys could certainly use.
So I guess my question is if you

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haven't like when you have the five
six year run, maybe playing in Europe,

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right, maybe even playing in the
NBA like Mantres Harold, but you

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haven't played, like, you know, competitively in this kind of a setting

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to where it's a real game.
You get a couple days off between games,

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that kind of stuff. Like,
I feel like injury prevention is something

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you got to be mindful of because
even if it's been your life for so

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long, but you've you know,
you've not played in a couple of years,

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like if you haven't trained extensively,
I feel like you got to be

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mindful about, you know, reps
and that kind of stuff. No,

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that's exactly right. You know.
First, a couple of things. One

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is we are very blessed and little
will be hosting it because if you look

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at as I mentioned, we're not
even the top seed in our bracket,

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and yet we're hosting, which is
really a credit to the fans and to

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the community and to the really the
legend of basketball. I think we're going

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to break the record tomorrow for attendance. I don't want to get my hope.

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So, but it looks like it's
trending that direction. That's awesome.

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Yeah, and we're playing and there's
some good teams in this sort of region

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or district orherever they however, they've
decided to do this. But you're exactly

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right. And if you recall last
year, lots of players got lots of

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minutes, and that will be you
know, sort of the norm. So

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you mentioned injury prevention, but there's
also a lot of cardiovascular health. I

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mean, these folks aren't used to
at least some of them aren't used to

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playing you know, thirty forty,
you know, to eighty games a year

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like the NBA does. And so
the combination of you know, let's keep

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in mind, injuries happen when you're
fatigued, plus the lack of playing time

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be you know, an interesting thing
to watch. And based on what I

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can tell right now, everybody looks
healthy. Got a lot of names on

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here, got a great roster.
Some of these guys look exactly like they

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did when they played here. It
is it's unbelievable. There's been you know,

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certainly the Fountain of youth. Maybe
it's maybe it's the bourbon that you

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know, russ sticulus is delling out. I don't know what it is,

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but you're exactly right. They look
like they could play. So sticking with

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basketball, obviously, Team USA expected
to once again dominate in the Olympic Games.

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And I think on paper, this
roster is as good as any that

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I've seen in quite some time,
featuring the best players in the world.

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And there are some other great players
that don't don't represent America. But when

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you look at the collection of what
we have here with Team USA, I

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mean, I think this team will
be dominant once again. And one of

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those players is Kevin Durant, And
obviously I think they could win the gold

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without him, But it sounds like
he's making progress. He's had a calf

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injury, did return to practice today. They still don't know if he's going

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to play tomorrow. I imagine again
this is just something that they're being very

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safe with as as as they should. But you know, when you hear

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of him nursing a calf and being
back to practice, I mean, is

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it realistic to expect him to be
good to go once they because it's tough

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to know, because again they could
not play him at all and probably still

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cruise. But obviously I'm sure he
wants to play, wants to represent his

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country. Yeah, No, it's
a great question. Here's the thing.

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We have these sort of injury transparency
rules in the NBA and to some extent

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college now, but we don't have
it during this transitory time going to the

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Olympics. But I could tell you
we really need Kevin Durant. Hopefully it

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was a strain as opposed to a
tear in that calf. You know,

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a lot of people don't know this, but he's the leading scorer of all

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time in the Olympics. I think
he's won three. I did not know

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that. He's like, a yeah, he's like a savant for the Olympics.

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I mean he's the all time scorer
for teamsa you know upwards at four

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hundred and some points or something like
that. He is an enabler. He's

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the one that will allow folks like
Stephen Curry and Lebron James to be more

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forceful. So I think it's critical
that he plays. And if you notice,

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there's been some some sort of hot
swaps of a few of these players

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in the Olympics. Kawhi Leonard is
a good example, but nobody talked about

404
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swapping out Duran because you know how
valuable he is to the other players and

405
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to the team itself. So with
Kawhi Leonard, he ended up not he's

406
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no longer with the team pulled out, and there's been a little bit of

407
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confusion ast as far as what really
led to that happening, because he's had

408
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injury history in recent years, there's
no I mean, I think a lot

409
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of people realize that when healthy,
he's been great, but he just hasn't

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been able to stay healthy for a
variety of reasons over the years. And

411
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the GM Lawrence Frank of the Clippers
later came out and said that it was

412
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not the Clippers decision or Kawhi's decision. It was more so I guess the

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folks within Team USA, which was
kind of a head scratcher for a lot

414
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of folks myself included, how often
do you mean it's I'm sure it's a

415
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tricky situation because if somebody is in
fact, you know, injury prone,

416
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or they're nursing an injury and you
just got to be careful because of something

417
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that had happened in recent years,
I mean, obviously your employer is going

418
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to want to keep you safe.
However, you know, it's kind of

419
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I would think it would be hard
for an employee to say hey, we

420
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don't want you to go represent the
country and you know, try to win

421
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a gold medal. So I just
I'm curious if you know of any any

422
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other situations to where the professional team
that employees these guys, whether be basketball

423
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or a different sport, like they
may not want their you know, their

424
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employee who they rely on to risk
injury. But it's also hard to say

425
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hey, we can't let you do
that. Yeah, I think Olympics are

426
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the exception to all of these kind
of rules because you're representing you know,

427
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your country, and you're representing the
team. And to your point, you

428
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know, basically the president, you
know, Lawrence Frank said he's not hurt.

429
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He look great during practice, and
I think reading some tea leaves here.

430
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Team chemistry is so important for this
team. I mean it's not a

431
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lack of talent. I mean,
look at the players that are on this

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US Olympic team. That is not
the issue. But can the coach get

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the right team chemistry and culture you
know built around this, which in the

434
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Olympics is more about you know,
sacrifice than anything else. It's a more

435
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European style of basketb all At times, the US is tripped up in that

436
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.960
style of basketball. But if you
look top to bottom in terms of the

437
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talent level, nobody should be able
to even be the same court as US.

438
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But you still have to have the
right team, the right mentality.

439
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And it's hard to tell. Maybe
maybe Leonard had some you know, nagging

440
00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:21.119
injuries, and maybe he didn't want
to practice much, who knows, But

441
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you saw some of the practices where
Stephen Curry was making I don't know any

442
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:27.759
you know, threes in a row, and they certainly look like they were

443
00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.720
going after it. And as I
said, the Olympics, I think is

444
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the best exception because these players are
going to do something during the summer.

445
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They are working out, they are
playing, and so you might as well

446
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.519
have it organized and to some extent
even getting you know, they're all going

447
00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:45.079
to learn if they if they have
a good growth mindset, they're going to

448
00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:48.599
learn during this Olympic time period.
So it's a win win win all across

449
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.160
the board for everybody, including the
fans. As when I was younger,

450
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I loved hearing stories about NBA stars
really kind of connecting and getting to know

451
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each other and learning from each other
while playing for Team USA and that's happening

452
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:02.680
now. Anthony Edwards, a guy
who a lot of people think is maybe

453
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the future of the league. You
know, this is this is turning into

454
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a situation where each and every practice
you hear from at least one player that

455
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.920
is acknowledging you know this, it's
this, it's this guy's turn now,

456
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:14.599
like he's he's kind of the young
guy that is one of the best players

457
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:15.599
in the league. And it's crazy
to say it, but you know,

458
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guys like Lebron and Steph Curry,
they're getting a little bit older now they

459
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.400
can still play at a high level
and that's a good thing for the game.

460
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But yeah, you know, camaraderie
is something I really miss about playing

461
00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:26.839
sports and when I can, you
know, when I hear stories of these

462
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:29.799
guys again, usually they're going up
against each other, but now they're all

463
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together and going to be dominant,
I'm sure. So yeah, I'm hopeful

464
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that they end up having a successful
trip and bring back the gold. Be

465
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a big shock if they don't.
And you mentioned Kawhi, you know,

466
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a heck of a player, but
obviously a guy who when he's been with

467
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every team, he's a big part
of it. But I think adding Derek

468
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.279
White was such a great addition because
he's not the star that you see on

469
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the rest of the like the other
guys on the roster, but man,

470
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he played alongside two huge stars and
did whatever was needed. He helped the

471
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:59.240
Celtics win the title. And with
Jaln Brown and Jason Tatum, you know,

472
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perfect it perfect kind of guy that
that I think fits with what you

473
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.920
mentioned as far as chemistry. He's
somebody that will not be out there looking

474
00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:07.440
to get twenty five shots a game
because you know he can kind of do

475
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.759
whatever you need, which again that
uh, that stuff's really really important.

476
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:12.920
Now. I wanted to get to
something else with the Olympics here, and

477
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I'd never thought about this until just
stuff kind of nerded out on the Olympics

478
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:19.599
this go around, which I'm hoping
to really get into and really consume more

479
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:22.880
than I have the last time we
had the Olympics. But when it comes

480
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.559
to those that get the chance to
also represent the country but not necessarily do

481
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.720
it on the field, the court, or whatever the sport is, but

482
00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:34.519
they're they're they're physical uh fat therapists, they are athletic trainers in that industry.

483
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:38.359
How do you how do you get
the chance to to to join one

484
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of the Olympic teams for the United
States. I'm sure there's a lot of

485
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.440
competition. I just I'm just curious
as to how that works, because I

486
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:47.839
did a little googling. And of
course, if you uh, if you

487
00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:49.480
you know, if you're an employee, if you work somewhere for a professional

488
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:52.680
sports team, or maybe you do
it elsewhere for a company, They're gonna

489
00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.759
be really proud and really pump you
up and make it clear, Hey,

490
00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.119
one of our own is is is
gonna be is gonna be traveling with the

491
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.680
United States team as the trainer or
as the therapist. I just it's something

492
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:08.279
I'd never thought about before. Now. Representing your country in any capacity in

493
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:15.920
the Olympics is just as lead a
support staff, and all of the athletic

494
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:21.039
trainers and physical therapists fall under the
global banner of the US Olympics what they

495
00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:26.039
call their sports medicine group. Keep
in mind, year round at both you

496
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.920
know, Lake Placid and Colorado Springs, they have full staffs of trainers and

497
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:37.200
athletic you know, physical therapists,
sports medicine folks that are that are guiding

498
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:41.359
Olympians including the Paralympic as well.
So really there's that that effectively makes three

499
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.599
sites. The best way to become
a physical therapist athletic trainer in the Olympics

500
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.559
is one of basically threefold. One
is you become an employee of the US

501
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:55.680
Olympic Committee. Most of those trainers
and therapists will represent the US at the

502
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Olympics. Not all of them,
but most of them will. Then you

503
00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:02.319
can get chosen depending on the team
that you represent. So for example,

504
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:07.200
Steve Kerr is the he is the
coach of the basketball team. He probably

505
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.440
has the authority to bring whatever trainer
and therapist he wants. That makes sense,

506
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.279
yeah, and that in a lot
of the team sports you'll see that.

507
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:21.039
Then you have to remember that once
the Olympics started letting effectively professionals participate.

508
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.880
Simone Biles, for example, and
Jordan Childs are you know, the

509
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:30.759
Olympic gymnasts, but they're professional athletes
and so they have their own personal physical

510
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.119
therapists that I am quite confident we'll
be traveling to the Olympics as well.

511
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:37.799
So those are really you know,
you could be an ad hoc pick.

512
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You can be part of the Olympic
Sports medicine group in a big banner,

513
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.759
or you could be chosen by your
athlete, depending on the situation. But

514
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:51.680
it's a there's a massive support team. When they show pictures at the Olympics

515
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.680
in Paris this year, which she'll
show, you know, the Olympic village,

516
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:59.599
you will see incredible amount of housing
of not just the athletes but their

517
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:04.680
support staff. Is there an Olympics
sport that you end up consuming, you

518
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.079
know, pretty regularly. That's not
one of the more mainstream sports, right

519
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:09.279
There's a lot of things we see
during the Olympics that you know, you

520
00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:13.880
have to really look hard to find
any any stream or television coverage of it

521
00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:19.640
because it's just not something people usually
consume. That's good. What's happened though,

522
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.000
is you now have so for the
Paris Olympics. I think you're going

523
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:27.599
to have what three or four chances
per day, you know, forgetting the

524
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.880
time zone change which is roughly six
hours for our Eastern time zone folks,

525
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:34.880
you'll have you'll be able to pick
a lot of the sports. I mean,

526
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:37.880
the sophistication and streaming is allowed,
if you know, I'm more interested

527
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:42.759
in the decathlon, you know,
field and track and you're more interested in

528
00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:45.319
swimming, you'll have the opportunity to
pick one or the other, which I

529
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.960
think is a great a great feature. You know. I harken back to

530
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.799
the old days when you just went
to one channel and they televised what they

531
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:55.839
televised. When they're overseas like they
are, you are at their becketing call.

532
00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:59.519
But it, you know, just
like with everything else, you've got

533
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:01.839
a little bit more of customization involved, you know, kind of like if

534
00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:05.759
you watch the British Open this week, you know you're able to go to

535
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:08.240
three or four different you know,
parts of the golf course where the players

536
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:12.480
are playing in the Olympics are much
like that. Yeah, we definitely have

537
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.519
the ability to pick and choose what
we watch, much more so than we

538
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.240
did back in the day. I
remember the first Olympics that I really remember

539
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.359
a whole lot was was the one
in Atlanta, and I think that's really

540
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:23.400
when I kind of was old enough
to kind of know what it was,

541
00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:27.119
and yeah, we were just glued
to it and whenever they show that's what

542
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.880
we watched. No. Absolutely,
you know, there's golf this year,

543
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:35.079
both men and women, and then
they're talking about the next Olympics. Having

544
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.079
them combined as a team in some
way. Wow, And I would I

545
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.319
would actually say one of my more
interesting things I like is watching the sports

546
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:44.559
in fact sometimes have never even heard
of. Oh yeah, you're seeing in

547
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.839
the Olympics, like, for example, there is a men's field hockey.

548
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.759
You know Olympics teams. I don't
even know if the US as a team,

549
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:55.319
But you see that, and you
only get to see it once every

550
00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:59.839
four years. So I'm with you, especially that one, because it's it's

551
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:04.240
a sport that you've probably seen it
in some capacity, but just with women

552
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.119
mostly around here. But if you
if you turned it on and it's guys

553
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:08.320
playing, I think it would catch
your eye. You would be interested in

554
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:14.480
watching that they do. They wear
interesting uniforms, and they are studs.

555
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:19.400
They're big dudes, very strong,
very athletic, and it's not necessarily a

556
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.239
boring thing to watch. But I
also like watching volleyball and all the other

557
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:24.960
kind of things that you know everybody
else likes watching too, So it's a

558
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:29.079
it's a great time looking incredibly forward
to it. It's, you know,

559
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.480
effectively two weeks of your life that
you set aside to watch incredible athletes.

560
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.159
No doub about it, Larry.
I appreciate you always making time for us.

561
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:37.840
Have a great weekend, sir,
and we will talk soon. My

562
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.880
friend, you too. Go TBT. That's right, Go TBD Theville.

563
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:45.800
That's right, Doctor Larry Benns from
pro Rea Physical Therapy. Man, I'm

564
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:47.920
hoping we break that record tomorrow.
And I got to be honest, I

565
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.360
haven't really even thought about the potential
of them losing, which I don't think

566
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:53.880
there's much potential of it, but
you know, that would be the worst,

567
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:59.320
and that's always been my biggest fear
before Lowell had a team. I

568
00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:02.039
remember you years ago watching Kansas had
a team and it was a bunch of

569
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:06.280
former Kansas legends, and that might
have been when they broke the record at

570
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.000
Wichita and they got demolished. I
remember thinking to myself, Yeah, man,

571
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.000
that would be really tough to see
the legends the guy and the last

572
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.360
memory a lot of these guys were
when they won a national championship, and

573
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:17.280
if they get dusted by somebody,
that would be tough to take. But

574
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:20.400
hey, this team was really good
last year and I think they're gonna be

575
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:22.760
even better this year. So no
offense. De Bellerman in the nights.

576
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:24.639
I think Louisville, Sha Cruz tomorrow. All right, stick with us,

577
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:27.960
We'll be with you till six o'clock. Don't go anywhere, keep you locked

578
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.760
right here. On Sports Talk seven
ninety, This makes me want to crack

579
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:35.400
a cold beer. John, it's
a Friday. Good stuff, Montgomery gentry

580
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:39.000
on a Friday. I love Montgomery
Gentry. All right. So I got

581
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:44.079
distracted during the break there with TikTok, and it's my wife's fault. She

582
00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:47.639
sent me a TikTok and it wasn't
that funny. But then I just scrolled

583
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:52.000
and I kept watching, And I
don't know why I find this to be.

584
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.840
It's not really I wouldn't say it's
entertaining, but for whatever reason,

585
00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:01.880
I find myself in this wormhole on
tik talk. That is people who are

586
00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:07.159
worried that somebody in public has a
camera. You know it all. Have

587
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:09.000
you ever seen those videos, John, of somebody like out on the street

588
00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:14.360
corner, just hanging out on a
public sidewalk with a video with a phone

589
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:17.360
filming and people run up like,
you better not be filming me. You

590
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:22.320
don't have my consent. People really
do that? Oh you've never seen this?

591
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.960
No? Oh, God. Yeah. So it's just people who honestly,

592
00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:32.119
they just try to get a rise
out of people who oftentimes do let

593
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:37.159
that for some reason, let them
lose their mind and they just they you

594
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:39.159
know, they think. But the
reason I'll bring it up is because it's

595
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:45.639
got to be one of the biggest
mistaken laws out there that people just don't

596
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.239
like. People think it's illegal for
somebody to film you in public, and

597
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:55.000
it's and it's not. And what
confuses me is how many people it's not

598
00:36:55.079 --> 00:37:00.159
even like, hey, let me
call the cops and figure out if they're

599
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.880
allowed to do this, let me, you know, google something. They

600
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:05.920
just run up as if hey,
what you're doing is illegal and I'll have

601
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.599
you arrested. And that's exactly what
the people who are filming want you to

602
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:13.480
do, because they want to expose
the fact that they actually do have the

603
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.119
freedom. They have a freedom to
do that. And there's not anything when

604
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:21.159
you are in public, there's no
expectation of privacy. So if I am

605
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:23.679
standing on a public sidewalk and I
have a camera and it's just standing there,

606
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:27.719
you don't want to be on it, don't come near it, and

607
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I have you know, why they
do it they're weirdos, like they're just

608
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.840
trying to get a rise out of
people. They also try to get cops

609
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:38.280
to cross the line and arrest them
or you know, a crime that they're

610
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:42.239
not really committing. You know,
they say it that it's trespassing, but

611
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.880
you can't be trespassed from a public
place. So like it's really a waste

612
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:47.639
of time watching it. But I
feel like that's one of the of all

613
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:52.159
the things people are confused about as
far as what's legal and what is illegal.

614
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.920
There are an insane amount of people
that just assume that you need their

615
00:37:55.960 --> 00:38:00.039
permission to film them, and you
don't. I mean, also, there

616
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:05.679
are cameras everywhere you go in the
world now seemingly that are filming you.

617
00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:09.039
Like, when we got out of
our cars in the parking garage today and

618
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:14.920
we walked in here to our studios
at iHeart, John, I can think

619
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.719
of three cameras I know that that
that were on that that saw me.

620
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:20.840
I don't know what they were looking
at me, or they're going to tell

621
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:23.320
them that they need consent. No, But like people don't get worried about

622
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:29.119
that. Yeah, yeah, but
exactly it's exactly the same thing. And

623
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:32.519
you know, I just it's one
thing if like, you know, you

624
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:37.800
really are doing something like I don't
know. I just don't understand why there

625
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:40.000
are so many that just automatically think, well, hey, if you're filming

626
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:45.920
somebody in public, you need to
have their consent and their permission, and

627
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:50.000
you you don't. And it just
at some point, mostly you know,

628
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:52.280
older people, and I guess it's
also younger people too, that just assume

629
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.280
I'm calling the cops. I'm calling
the cops, and the cops show up

630
00:38:55.639 --> 00:39:00.360
and tell them they're not doing anything
illegal, like they're not like there's you

631
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:05.320
know, there's there's you can be
upset, you cannot like it, and

632
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.840
yeah they may be weird and you
know, try to get a rise out

633
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.119
of you, but they're not doing
anything illegal. They're allowed to do that.

634
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:14.159
And it's also at times turned into
where the people who get upset and

635
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:15.920
lose their mind they get arrested for
like assault because they'll, you know,

636
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:20.159
they'll they'll grab their camera, grab
their phone, and if you are grabbing

637
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:22.960
something that someone's holding like that and
that's their property, like technically that can

638
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:28.039
be battery or assault. So it's
really stupid. But for some reason,

639
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:32.039
I just get caught up in that
wormhole sometimes on on TikTok, And you

640
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:37.480
know, the biggest, the best
ones are like the people who aren't cops,

641
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:42.840
but they work like security at a
place and people are on the public

642
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:45.760
sidewalk, not on their property,
and they come out there and they act

643
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:47.840
as if they are law enforcement and
they're billy. I mean, I think

644
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:52.800
private security for certain companies, like
it may be one of the jobs that

645
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:55.760
like probably is not a lucrative thing, but man, people get off on

646
00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:59.519
the power that they think they have, you know what I mean. That

647
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.000
maybe a good topic to run down
at some point, like jobs where people

648
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:06.800
just get a power trip like no
other. And maybe it's not really a

649
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:09.239
power trip, but just knowing you
have control over a situation and you really

650
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:13.360
just you know, that's what keeps
you coming back to work every day,

651
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:16.760
not the money. All Right,
we gotta we'll finish strong in the five

652
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:20.199
o'clock hour. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a guarantee that

653
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:22.480
we do that. So stick with
us right here. It's coffee and company.

654
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